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Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nip-and-tuck dept.

safrit writes "Finally the scoop on how IE "cheats" a little to up its performance! Do RFCs mean nothing anymore? What's next, Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! From the blog story: 'Internet Explorer on Windows always seems either to run impossibly fast (page requests are fulfilled almost before the mouse button has returned to its original unclicked position), or ridiculously slow...' Now read to see why..."

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  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    IE is WAY faster than everything else... and for a Windows user, like myself, I don't really care why. I've installed Ad-Aware and Spybot, so as long as it's not installing any of that garbage I don't give a crap.

    IE is about 10 times faster than Netscape, that's all that matters to me.

  2. Re:IE Fast? What are you kidding me? by Hassman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's cuz it's been slashdotted genius.

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  3. Re:IE's other trick: full DOM and JS caching by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PS Threaded e-mail is handy, eh? It sure is, unless your mail reader doesn't remember that you want to see your mailboxes in threaded view and keeps reverting back to collapsed form.

    No offense, my friend, but people who use Mozilla to read their email deserve what they get. Get thee to a real MUA.

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